''Tempo'' is a quarterly

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that specialises in

music Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of Musical form, form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise Musical expression, expressive content. Music is generally agreed to be a cultural universal that is present in all hum ...

of the 20th century and

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. It was established in 1939 as the 'house magazine' of the

music publisher A music publisher is a type of publisher that specializes in distributing music. Music publishers originally published sheet music. When copyright became legally protected, music publishers began to play a role in the management of the intellectu ...

Boosey & Hawkes Boosey & Hawkes is a British Music publisher (sheet music), music publisher, purported to be the largest specialist classical music publisher in the world. Until 2003, it was also a major manufacturer of brass instrument, brass, string instru ...

. ''Tempo'' was the brain-child of

Arnold Schoenberg Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (13 September 187413 July 1951) was an Austrian and American composer, music theorist, teacher and writer. He was among the first Modernism (music), modernists who transformed the practice of harmony in 20th-centu ...

's pupil Erwin Stein, who worked for

as a music editor. The journal's first editor was Ernest Chapman and it was intended to be a bi-monthly publication. Issues 1 to 4 appeared from January to July 1939; but owing to the outbreak of

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there was a hiatus in publication until August 1941, when issue 5 appeared, and another until February 1944, when regular publication resumed with issue 6 on a roughly quarterly basis. Meanwhile, the

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office of Boosey & Hawkes set up a separate American edition which produced six issues in 1940–1942 (numbered 1–6, independent of the UK numbering) and an unnumbered 'wartime edition' in February 1944. In 1946, the journal was enlarged and redesigned and began a new numbering: Issues 1 and 2 of the New Series were notionally issues 16 and 17 of the Old Series, but thereafter dual numbering was dropped. From the 1950s, ''Tempo'' began to cover a wider range of music than that published by Boosey. Past

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include Anthony Gishford, Donald Mitchell, Colin Mason, and David Drew. Beginning in the early 1980s, the journal was edited by Malcolm MacDonald under his journalistic alias of Calum MacDonald. MacDonald handled the transition in publisher from Boosey & Hawkes to

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. Following his retirement in January 2014, the editor became Bob Gilmore.Editorial. ''Tempo'' 67 (266; October 2013): 17 Since 2015, the editor has been Christopher Fox. , the journal is published by Cambridge University Press.

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